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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Welsh literature"”.
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The Celt and Shelley : a study of certain contrasts and resemblances between Welsh literature and Shelley's poetry
Now as to what are the ends to be attained; there will be an attempt to compare and contrast the outstanding Shelleyan qualities which have been quite generally accepted with those of the Cymric Celts. But it is quite evident by the very limitation of time and space at our disposal, that the …
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Making the private public: (life) writing, shame and the abjection of homosexual sex in Wales
… sexual spaces and sexual trauma in contemporary Welsh literature, this study analyses queer narratives in Jones’s literary works that centre around public spaces. Serving as a critical reflection upon homosexual expressions and explorations in Welsh literature through reference to the short …
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Leadership and virtue: a character analysis of Fionn mac Cumhaill and King Arthur in the later medieval period
It has often been remarked that the Welsh warrior-king Arthur and the warrior-hero Fionn of the Irish tradition have similarities in character. Oliver Padel, in his Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature, discusses briefly the similarity between the Arthur of the earliest Welsh literature and Fionn, …
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Magical birds as a link between the Mabinogion and other Celtic literature : facts and fancies
… mentioned by name in two other medieval works of Welsh literature that are entirely independent of the Mabinogion. This dissertation examines these assertions and analyses the problematic nature of claims made concerning them. It then attempts to find an explanation for these claims, based on …
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'Cad Goddeu', 'the Battle of the Trees': texts and interpretations
… the Trees'), a poem attributed to the legendary Welsh bard Taliesin, is found in its earliest extant form in the fourteenth-century Welsh manuscript known as Llyfr Taliesin, (The Book of Taliesin). This dissertation asks how the poem has been recreated over time through a network of texts linked …
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Gereint and its Welsh Contexts
… in the culture, politics, and rhetoric of the Welsh narrative tradition. The text is placed in its Welsh contexts, historical and literary, and interpretations are considered. Without reference to the French "romance” tradition, a purposeful “native tale” can be discerned. There are three …
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Dissonant Neighbours Progression and Radiality in Welsh and English Poetic Narrative to c. 1250
This PhD dissertation examines narrative in early Welsh and English poetry, and more particularly how, where, and why we find temporal progression and radiality in the poetic narrative of both literatures. The term ‘radiality’ is discussed by Joseph Clancy, who, in introducing his translations of …